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Antipope John XXIII grave

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He was sometimes referred to as the pirate pope because of his relations with robbery.  Medici family supported him through his rise to cardinal and then pope.  He made sure once he became pope to assign the church financial empire to the Medici bank.  

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Antipope John XXIII

Baldassarre Cossa (c. 1370 – 22 December 1419) was Pope John XXIII (1410–1415) during the Western Schism. The Catholic Church regards him as an antipope, as he opposed the Pope whom the Catholic Church now recognizes as the rightful successor of Saint Peter. He was eventually deposed and tried for various crimes, though later accounts question the veracity of those accusations.

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